The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT Chicago on the 11th the long, stubborn
fight against 4. j. Vail, secretary OF the
National Trotting Association, was brought
to close, Vail sending his resignation to
the president of the association.
AT New Boston, n. H.. fire destroyed the
town house, one church, two chapels. one
store and shop and seven dwellings. Loss,
$40, 900; insurance, $4,000.
THE steamer Benton, plying between
Singapore, Penang and Malacca, was
run into at midnight, March %, by the
steamer Fair, of Penang, shortly after leav-
ing Malacca, and sank within half an hour.
OF POO persons aboard only fifty were known
to have been saved. Most of those lost were
natives
BANGOR. Ne, and Middleboro and Buz-
Yards Bay, Mass, report large forest fires
Much damage has already been done and
much greater loss is threatened in timber
and buildings.
The United States revenue cutter Rich
ard Bush has been ordered to Sitka, Alaska,
where she will take the United States Con-
sui aboard, and convey him to Ounalaska,
for the purpose of selling at auction Two
British schooners seized in the Behring sea
last year for illegal seal fishing.
THE French Budget Committee has re-
iected Premier Goblet's offer to reduce the
estimates 100000 francs.
Two badly tainted car loads of Western
beef were seized at New York freight de-
pot recently by the city health officers.
The directors of the Pennsylvania road
have voted to issue $S,000,0O0 of new stock
to pay for contemplated improvements.
THE municipal council of the Irish Ma
tional League, of Philadelphia, has decided
to boycott the Cunard steamers.
THE American sugar refinery at San
Francisco, recently sent 1000, 900 pounds of
sugar to New York over the Canadian Pa
cific.
THE schooner Laura Madison, which ar
rived at Umpaqua, Ore, May 10, reports
seeing the ship Ocean King, on May s.,
eighty five miles west of Arago, on fire and
abandoned. Nothing was known OF the
crew.
AT ameeting of the members of the Rail
road Coal Association at Pitts burgh, Pa,
on the 18th, resolutions were adopted not
to sell to Cleveland middlemen, and author
izing the members to cut prices at any
time, and to undersell any contracts already
made This means bitter war for con-
tracts to lake ports.
A LETTER from j. ID. Garcia to a friend in
Tucson, Ari, complains that he is held in
| Jail at Saharipa, Sonora, Mexico, be-
cause he refused to vote for the project re-
| Gently.
IT was stated on the 18th that Sir Ed
ward Thornton had received new PROPOSE
ton for the settlement of the Virginia debt.
| 1t provides for three per cent. on $50, 600.
600 of debt, the amount of bonds held by
the State which it is proposed shall be can
celed. The proposition was said to be
| final.
THE entire business part of Earlville, Ia,
town of 1,000 inhabitants, thirty-seven
miles west Of Dubuque, was wiped out by
fire the other night. Twenty business
houses, four dwellings, one church and sew
eral barns were destroyed. Loss, $50, 900;
insurance, $4,000.
AT Washington on the 18th the present
officers of the society of the Army of the
Cumberland were reelected for the ensu-
ing year as follows; President, p. II. Sher-
idan; Corresponding Secretary, General
Henry NJ. Cist; Treasurer, General J. S.
Fullerton; Recording Secretary. General
John w. Steele, and vice-president from
each State represented in the society.
A COLLISION which came near resulting
seriously for both vessels, occurred of
Quarantine at New York the other night,
between the Red Star steamer, Belgenlaud,
from Antwerp, and the tramp steamer,
Hartlepool from Middlesborough. A panic
occurred among the immigrants on the
Belgenland, but no lives were lost.
ALL the crew of the Ocean King, burned
and abandoned of Oregon coast, have ar
rived at Port Townsend, w. T.